Hope Gap
By Paul Weissman May 14, 2020
Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) are set to celebrate their 29th anniversary, until he drops a bomb on her.
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Palme d’Or Winner “I, Daniel Blake” | Cannes 2016
By Kent Turner May 23, 2016
Urgency. That was the main ingredient propelling many of the best films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, including the winner of the Palme d’Or, I, Daniel Blake.
The Selfish Giant
By Dionne King December 20, 2013
Written & Directed by Clio Barnard, inspired by the short story by Oscar Wilde Produced by Tracy O’Riordan Released by Sundance Selects UK. 93 min. Not rated With Connor Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder & Siobhan Finneran British director Clio Barnard’s career began as an artist/filmmaker, and her work in video was seen in galleries […]
Wasteland
By Dionne King July 28, 2013
Written & Directed by Rowan Athale Produced by Ed Barratt, Mark Foligno, Gareth Pritchard Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories UK. 106 min. Not rated With Luke Treadaway, Timothy Spall, Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon, Vanessa Kirby, Neil Maskell & Gerard Kearns British director Rowan Athale’s feature debut opens in the gloomy confines of a police station, where battered […]
Tyrannosaur
By Nora Lee Mandel November 18, 2011
Written & Directed by Paddy Considine Produced by Diarmid Scrimshaw Released by Strand Releasing U.K. 91 min. Not Rated With Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman & Eddie Marsan Joseph (Peter Mullan) lumbers into the opening scenes like the drunken, violent, angry lout of so many working-class films from Great Britain and Ireland. Here in Yorkshire, the […]
Killing Bono
By Brendon Nafziger November 6, 2011
Directed by Nick Hamm Produced by Ian Flooks, Hamm, Mark Huffam & Piers Tempest Written by Dick Clement, Ian la Frenais & Simon Maxwell, based on the memoirs I Was Bono’s Doppelganger by Neil McCormick Released by Arc Entertainment UK/Ireland. 114 min. Rated R With Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Krysten Ritter, Martin McCann & Pete […]
Weekend
By Kent Turner October 2, 2011
Edited, Written & Directed by Andrew Haigh Produced by Tristan Goligher Released by Sundance Selects UK. 86 min. Not rated With Tom Cullen & Chris New Two young good-looking guys in their twenties hook up, exchange numbers the morning after, meet that same afternoon and then again that night before one of them has […]
Another Year
By Kent Turner January 7, 2011
Written & Directed by Mike Leigh Produced by Georgina Lowe Released by Sony Pictures Classics Finnish with English subtitles UK. 129 min. Rated PG-13 With Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley & Karina Fernandez Aspirations inevitably fail (for those who are unlucky, or single). Director Mike Leigh sounds this bleak note again and again in […]